Embers on your Heels [Yuri, Kokoro]

What a fucking nightmare.

Yuri had always been able to juggle her responsibilities and her other more personal interests. The Academy. Her little forays into how the other divisions were doing. She'd even managed to find time to go down to earth and Spectate some of those fights down in the city of lights.

But now everything was chaos. The initial incident itself had been jarring enough. Certainly, the Soul Society had had it's knocks, but for someone to have the gall to attack the sereitei from the inside. The investigation had more or less begun immediately. A number of the Division, herself included, had been on the scene almost immediately to begin processing the scene and secure the area. Digging people out of rubble. Keeping everything organized and surveying the scene itself. The Sixth division had been put into overdrive more or less.

And as luck would have it, while many individuals had been tasked in investigation, Yuri had been assisting with recovery and coordination. Which was.... a LOT more manual labor than what Yuri was used to. Digging, searching, carting people and materials and supplies around. SOMEONE had to do all the minute work. And well, somehow she'd wound up as a part of that.

And so, trudging toward the Third Seat's office, she couldn't help but feel a slight misery. By now most of the rescue work and such had been handled, now it was just a matter of cleanup and recovery. Which meant.....paperwork. Taking the load off those doing investigation by handling their usual tasks. She felt grimy, and sore. Thankfully, unlike....ahem... some of the more zealous divisions, Sixth was oiled enough that rest and recovery was not just allowed, but required. And so, she had decided to check up on the Third Seat.

She sighed outside of the door and for half a second, considered trying to tidy herself up a bit. But that warm, glowing, helpful facade wasn't up today. It took enough energy not to just head to her quarters and pass out. No, Yuri simply gave a gentle knock on the door and took a few seconds to relax, building up a bit of energy before putting on a more put-together expression. She at least could afford to try and NOT look ready to pass out around her superior.

The energy in the woman's ears grated ever so slightly, some small part of her a little miffed that there was such vim and vigor therein. All the same, she perked her brows, glancing across the woman's desk and tilting her head a bit to the side. Truth be told, she hadn't really had a chance to form an opinion on the woman, she hadn't exactly interacted with her more than a few scant times professionally. The woman certainly did her job, and for a moment, she noted the paperwork she had been working on, and some small sentiment of approval settled in her. For now.

"Third Seat Zendan, I hope I'm not interrupting anything. But I just wanted to check in." She noted with a friendly smile. Partially right, but well, it had a better ring than 'Hey I'm here to make sure you aren't working yourself into uselessness'.

A pause given as her brain lagged a little and parsed. It really was a little astounding the nature of the Third seat. Not only just how massive she was, but those unique features. Thankfully she was worn enough that she didn't have the energy to gawk, but she certainly took the woman in in her periphery. Huh... big gal.

"I'm sorry that things are so hectic just as you're coming back. I would have liked to welcome you back under better circumstances."

Yuri's lips thinned the smallest ammount as she noticed Kokoro incessantly looking to the report in front of her, rather than the person who was addressing her. Yep, no that was fine, not like she'd just asked five seconds ago if this was a bad time or anything. The woman closed her eyes, a brief instant to calm the tired agitation that threatened to well up before that smile settled back into place.

Great. One of those.

"It's hardly a contest, no use fussing that you weren't here at the time. Besides, at this point a majority of the hard work has been done, the immediate response. Search and Rescue. At this point, it's a matter of investigation and restoration. And we have very capable people taking care of investigation." A little tinge in her head, as honestly she herself was a little miffed that she wasn't able to also be a part of that investigation, at least presently. But she knew better than to entertain those thoughts. She wasn't really suited to that kind of work. It was better she was doing what she was doing now.

"As for myself. MY work has....admittedly already gone past it's hump. I helped a lot with a lot of the emergency response. Supplementing members of Second Division. Now It's just the more uh... menial task of coordination and helping with construction. But thankfully, I'm not the kind of girl who burns the cvandle at both ends. though certainly a number of the other responders have had some ...incidents of collapsing from exhaustion, and now add to the number of patients with Second Division. So I've been making the rounds, making sure that people don't get carried away and shoot themslves in the foot." A glance toward the report in Kokoros hand, but nothing really more than that. The Hero types really could be the worst at times. Thankfully, Sixth division wasn't exactly rife with those types, but she still had to keep an eye on her subordinates.

Her superiors were a little harder to wrangle in.

"I hope you've been getting plenty of rest?"

Yuri took several long moments to furrow her brows at the woman as they so casually admitted that they were substituting proper sleep with .... naps. She could understand if it was for physical work. But for ....paperwork? An absolute look of disgust ALMOST bubbled to the surface. Sure, she had her own paperwork she did, and she , at times, had to review reports and the work of lower officers. But that took...what... a few hours of her day? There was sufficient delegation of work that she either A, had the worst timing ever, or B, Kokoro was doing SOMETHING to file more paperwork to her desk than necessary.

"I see. It seems I just have bad timing then. I think it might be better if I come back in the morning, when you aren't so busy and you've had a chance to rest." She pointed out, without any real indication that she was anything but serious. Were she more awake, she probably would have had something to say about diminishing returns for naps and how if she kept this up then this paperwork would probably wind up having to be redone anyway. But well, that could always come later.

That comment gave pause to Yuri, stopping her in her tracks and causing her to glance over her shoulder at the woman as Kokoro rose up and performed a stretch, that calm smile deepening just a little, to counteract the slight glare in her heart as the woman went and stretched all over the damn place. Oh yea, she was aware of Kokoro's reputation. Had quite a few boys more or less obsessed with her. And the sight of the woman just haphazardly stretching that already large frame briefly had her idly imagine the response many guys, and probably girls, would have had to seeing such a sight. Ugh.

But she masked those feelings well enough, and for just a moment, she almost felt like encouraging this woman's behavior. Maybe a little more time behind her desk would keep her off her back. But no, that would just cause trouble for Yuri in the long run. "Mhm, I imagine it's much easier to run on fumes without people to keep tabs on you. But I'm afraid you can't escape my attention that easily." She noted with a slightly widening smirk.

"There's a few lower seated officers who have been running themselves ragged helping with everything outside. I'll assign them to keep ontop of the paperwork for the next few days. Keeps them from wearing their bodies out, and gives you some room to get a bit of rest." Ignoring the fact that frankly she should be taking the time to rest as well. But she was hardly going to go bringing that up herself. Hm.

"When was the last time you put some food in you?" She asked, a bti suddenly at that. As much as she didn't think that Kokoro's body NEEDED any more calories, if nothing else, if the woman had been neglecting sleep, she might have been neglecting nutrition as well. And getting this woman some food was actually a fairly good excuse to eat as well. Like leading a cow to graze and having a snack for herself on the way, if this big beast of a woman wasn't going to take care of herself, then Yuri would simply have to intervene, like any good livestock herder would.